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« on: May 07, 2014, 10:57:36 AM »
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Do shrimp ever stop feeding all mine have done from the moment i have put them in the tank is to eat night and day they never stop greedy little things will go pop with so much food  ;D
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Re: shrimp
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2014, 11:10:22 AM »
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They graze all day long. Mine are constantly eating too. Before I put food in, they are everywhere picking over the sand, crawling over decor/plants and even the glass. I feed a mixture of food for the various fish, and also Hikari shrimp cuisine - after that goes in the tank they congregate where it lands till it's all gone then back to grazing.

And my one ramining amano shrimp in the main tank has single handedly (single clawed?) eaten all the white goo that oozed out of my new redmoor wood!


I do know that I should have more amanos, but this one is the last survivor of a group I got in Feb 2009.
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« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2014, 12:33:01 PM »
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i must admit i am really happy with my shrimp there a real pleasure to watch they never seem to stay in one place for to long and pop up all over the tank and i seem to have two that are more than happy to compete at the surface for flake with my gourmai.
am i right in thinking thow that amano shrimp wont breed in my tank.? i bought 8 last saturday but the most i have been able to count in one go is 6 ( always get to 6 so i suspect i may have lost 2 but there is so many places to hide its hard to tell), i would like to get a few more.
yes my tank was fairly well covered in algle on the plants after haveing the lights on a lot during the fishless cycle as i was trying to work the system out and repairing the wires bit by bit but tbh they have almost completly cleaned all of that off now with some help from the kissing gourmai's.
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« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2014, 03:32:58 PM »
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Amano females will carry eggs but these shrimps hatch to a larval stage which needs salt water to develop. My females were constantly berried but I never saw a live shrimp larva. The eggs do change colour as they develop, though I can't remember whether they go from olive green to white or vice versa.
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Re: shrimp
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2014, 08:10:50 PM »
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my  beta g has just arrived and i was wondering do you add the dosage straight into your tank or do you mix it into water then add the water into your tank ?
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« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2014, 10:07:53 AM »
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I just add the powder. It won't harm the fish or shrimps to eat it. I've started using it in my betta's tank too as I've come to the conclusion he's a tail biter. Every so often, chunks vanish from the edges of his tail ever since I got him a year ago. No sign of finrot and no sign of a sick fish. Since beta-g is an immune booster I reckoned it couldn't do any harm and might help him heal better. He eats it as I drop it in the tank.
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« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2014, 10:13:11 AM »
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i did wonder if it could help other fish to , Thanks sue :)
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